It’s because it’s sovereign-ish. If you mean the German public-sector definition of “digitally souverän,” it fails the test, and that failure is instructive. The state migrations that flew the sovereignty flag, Schleswig-Holstein being the loud one, went to LibreOffice and Linux for “complete digital sovereignty” , not SoftMaker. Reason: SoftMaker is closed source. You can’t audit it, you can’t fork it, and you’re still locked to one vendor’s roadmap. The ZenDiS/openDesk crowd treats open source as non-negotiable for sovereignty precisely because “trust me, I’m German” isn’t a security model. It’s a marketing posture at the moment unfortunately.